A sad tale with vast political consequences. Race is a deeply rooted historical and social construct.
How does the perception that constructs the other one makes the basis of this fiction? Is it build itself only through the experience and the gaze of the other?
Some elements of a response in this series.
A sad tale with vast political consequences. Race is a deeply rooted historical and social construct.
Is it built only through the experience and the gaze of the other? How can perception create a fiction which leads to othering?
Some elements of a response in this series.
|| THE EPISODES
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Race is the Darkest FictionMelanie and Deborah combine investigation and personal testimony to understand how racism is embedded in the nature of our hair. -
Race is the Darkest FictionAbdel is at the same time, Guinean, American, soon and maybe French, and also, muslim. So he knows a lot about what it means to "be black" in this world. -
Race is the Darkest FictionThat's all I was to these people: “Asian” and apparently, this placed me on the bottom rung of the desirability ladder.
|| THE SOUNDTRACK
The playlist to get in the mood for the Friction.
Frictions is a digital media whose ambition is to narrate our globalized times, through stories and singular fiction from around the world.